Steve Crossman wrote:
> Your suggestion below did not work. When I click on the menu, I want > the last selected menu to be selected in the pop-up. When I click on > the menu, nothing is selected.>>> How do I get a certain menu item to be selected when clicking on a >> bevel - menu or any pop-up menu for that matter?>> If, for example, in a font size menu, 14 point size is the current >> size, how do I make it the selected automagically when click the >> pop-up menu. I always get the first item, or no item selected.>>>>> Make your menu, then at some point after just set it to:>>>>>> Appearance button _ Your PopBtnID,, desired>>>>>> I do mine after I have created it, and just before making the window >>> visible. You can probably do it when making it too.>>>>>> Ken (I do believe) showed me this trick for getting it to show up >>> more instantly (like when using a key filter) on certain occasions>>>>>> appearance button -_YourPopBtnID,, desired>>> appearance button _ Your PopBtnID,, desired
A search in Apple's header files reveals helpful info in
ControlDefinitions.h:
/* NOTE:
Bevel buttons with menus actually have *two* values. The value of the
button (on/off), and the value of the menu.
*/
You need to set the value of the bevel button's menu with this function:
/*
* SetBevelButtonMenuValue()
*
* Mac OS X threading:
* Not thread safe
*
* Availability:
* Mac OS X: in version 10.0 and later in Carbon.framework
* CarbonLib: in CarbonLib 1.0 and later
* Non-Carbon CFM: in AppearanceLib 1.0 and later
*/
extern OSErr
SetBevelButtonMenuValue(
ControlRef inButton,
SInt16 inValue);
The FB translation is:
toolbox fn SetBevelButtonMenuValue( ControlRef inButton, SInt16 inValue
) = OSErr
dim as OSErr err
err = fn SetBevelButtonMenuValue( button&( _myBevelBtn ), whatEver )
Robert P.